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A Death in Summer

Quirke, Book 4

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A Death in Summer

By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: John Keating
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A Death in Summer is the fourth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon. Read by John Keating.

When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But, before long,– Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realize that – rather than the suspected suicide – ‘Diamond Dick’ has been murdered.

Suspicion soon falls on one of Jewell’s biggest rivals. But Quirke has his eyes elsewhere. With his assistant Sinclair, he gets to know Jewell's beautiful, enigmatic wife Françoise d’Aubigny and his fragile sister Dannie, as well as those who work for the family. And, gradually, it becomes clear that, in this household, everything is not as it seems . . .

A Death in Summer is the fourth Quirke Mystery. Continue the atmospheric, beguiling series with Vengeance.

©2011 Benjamin Black (P)2013 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Fiction
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I’ve never left a review like this before, but never felt the need before ! I so enjoyed Timothy Dalton’s reading of the previous 3 books in this series. This new narrator is dreadful. Lacking all atmosphere, and differentiation between characters. Worst of all is a truly appalling French accent for one of the characters, which would be funny in a different context but here is just distracting and annoying.

Atrocious Narration

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The failure to fully engage the reader or to invite them to care for any of the characters.

The quality of the writing especially description of the psychology of characters and the closeness to life.

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